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What Defense Contractors Find Out Too Late About DOD Freight The shipment gets rejected at the receiving dock. The carrier didn’t have the right documentation. The packaging didn’t meet military spec. The labeling was missing a required field. The contractor now has a delayed delivery, a potential contract violation, and a carrier dispute — all […]

The Gap Between Being Registered and Being Competitive Getting registered to pursue government freight work is a few days of paperwork. Winning government freight contracts — and performing on them — is a different problem. Brokers who enter the government freight market often complete registration and then discover it was the easy part. Government freight […]

The ITAR Freight Problem Most Contractors Miss Most discussions about ITAR freight shipping focus on exports — licenses, restricted countries, and State Department filings. Domestic freight gets almost no attention: the moves that never cross a border, the transfers between facilities that happen every week, the shipments that look routine until something goes wrong. ITAR […]

There Is No Single “Government-Approved” Freight Broker Certification If you search for “government approved freight broker,” you’ll find companies using that phrase as if it were an official credential. It isn’t. There is no single federal certification that automatically makes a freight broker “approved” for government work. In reality, qualification depends on a combination of […]

Port growth raises the bar – forwarders win by managing micro-failures that cause rolled freight, missed pickups, and escalations.

The China-Plus-One shift is reshaping global freight as forwarders face new compliance risks, warehouse shortages, and routing challenges.